For all the cleverness of "Inside Out," I was jolted from the start by its deformation of children and of mental life. I saw a feature-length sales pitch... to mold kids into beings as artificial and uniform as those created, by computer graphics, in the movie. The film is on the wrong track from the beginning, when the first view of the world, through the eyes of the infant Riley, is taken by Joy, and Joy becomes, from that point on, the default leader, Riley's emotional captain.
Richard Brody
June 25, 2015